• Report.Gennes with a face: they promote that the donation of ovules and semen cease to be anonymous

For months, a statement by the Spanish Bioethics Committee on anonymity in donations of gametes for assisted human reproduction was expected, and consequently the right of people conceived by human reproduction techniques to know their biological origin. And the report is already on the table: the Spanish Bioethics Committee unanimously recommends raising anonymity in the donation of gametes for assisted human reproduction. That is, it recommends a legal change so that those born by assisted human reproduction techniques can know their biological origins when there has been a donation of gametes.

However, he believes that this profound change should not have retroactive effects , also guarantee "the expectations of those who donated under the current regime of anonymity."

"Certainly, proposing an irretroactive model poses relevant ethical dilemmas, but we believe that the prudence in this proposal may be the one that most easily helps to change the current paradigm of anonymity so that through the promotion of a new paradigm it can also reach in the future to those born before the legal reform that could be carried out, "says the report.

As the Bioethics Committee concludes, "the proposal that we gather here should not only involve a legal change, but above all a true change of culture in the field of assisted human reproduction and relationships between parents, children born from the techniques of assisted human reproduction and parents. "

A statement like the one made this Thursday by the Bioethics Committee of Spain was one of the biggest fears of assisted human reproduction clinics , while it would curb both the number of donors and their activity and the attraction of assisted reproduction tourism in which Spain is a leader thanks in large part precisely to this anonymity of donors.

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